When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How Social Media Alters Human Relationships

Wagner, Lori Ann

doi:10.1353/jip.2015.0009

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“…However, the crux of installing social platforms on personal devices in recent times has trampled its ethical code. Thus, the rapid propagation of social media has shaped our discursive constructions of society including modes of interpersonal and professional communication as well as norms therein (Edelman, 2018;Morner & Olausson, 2017;Orben & Dunbar, 2017;Wanger, 2015). Owing to this unprecedented growth in digital communication, social work educators are presently taking up concerns on how best to facilitate the awareness and training of social work students on the ethical implications of social media usage (Duncan-Daston, Hunter-Sloan & Fullmer, 2013;Hitchcock & Battista, 2013;Judd & Johnson, 2012;Kimball & Kim, 2013;Mukherjee & Clark, 2012;Trimberger, 2012;Voshel & Wesala, 2015).…”

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The Hype of Coronavirus Pandemic in Southeast Nigeria: Some Thoughts

Isiani

Obi-Ani

2021

SAJSSH

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The escalation of the Coronavirus to other countries around the world prompted WHO to declare the virus on January 30, 2020 a public health emergency (WHO, 2020). In lieu of its quick spread and high mortality rate, the WHO termed the virus a pandemic. However, in Nigeria, efforts to contain and sensitize the populace about this pandemic were put in place, media platforms were copiously engaged by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), sensitizing the masses on the preventive measures against the coronavirus. Despite their efforts, some social media users inundated the people with fake news, 'end-time' religious teachings, rumors and misinformation about 5G ultra-waves. The dominant questions are: what roles did the different social media platforms play in information dissemination on Covid-19 in Southeast Nigeria? What were peoples' reactions to these messages? How do the people view messages from government viz-a-viz their religious leaders or other sources? Why do individuals deem it necessary to 'forward' such messages to relatives, friends and different social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook? In answering these questions, this qualitative study explores social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, blogs, online newspapers and YouTube where the contestations about the pandemic are most pronounced. This study through its finding using statistical frequencies, demonstrates that before the detection of the first victim of Covid-19 in Nigeria, the region was already agog with social media (mis)information about the pandemic causing panic among the populace followed by the frenzy need to 'forward' such messages to those in their contacts. In lieu of this, this study examines these contestations and contradictions about Covid-19 in Southeast Nigeria.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The Hype of Coronavirus Pandemic in Southeast Nigeria: Some Thoughts

Isiani

Obi-Ani

2021

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“…Having the device always with you allowed parents to monitor the movements of their children and to be always in contact with them [46,47], guiding them even remotely in the choices or supporting them in carrying out specific activities. In companies, it has increased the commercial development and it speeded up communication between managers and employees or between managers and suppliers [48].…”

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The Use of the Smartphone, A Nice Paradox: Functional and Dysfunctional at the Same Time

Vaccaro¹

2020

EOIJ

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Article's aim is to create a parallel between the functionality and the dysfunctionality in the use of the smartphone to prevent abuse of the device. The increase in the frequency of use of the smartphone appears as a physiological reaction to technological progress but at the same time it seems to appear as a "paradox effect". On one hand, the presence of the smartphone improved human communication in distance and speed. It helped personal and relational growth. On other hand, it has made all personal data public, traceable at any time and in context, increasing the fragility of the human being. It becomes an effective stimulus to modify the relationships and biological balance of the human organism, but the abuse of the smartphone today leads to talk about addiction. It is important get to the bottom of to emerging data in the literature to prevent it.

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“…People prefer to update their status rather than inviting a friend to have a coffee. This does not mean that human beings are less social, it is the way of communication that is changed [86].…”

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How Much are Aware of the Effects of Smartphone use in Daily Activities?

Vaccaro¹

2020

EOIJ

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The aim of the article is to highlight the consequences that the presence of the smartphone has induced in people's lives in daily activities such as driving, sleeping and studying. Its pervasiveness also affects mental health by increasing depressive symptoms, chronic stress and anxiety. Physically, it leads to gain weight, since it negatively affects appetite and food intake control. The literature shows that it is not the tool itself that is harmful but the frequency of use that the individual makes of it in everyday life. Born as a tool capable of speeding up communication and reducing distances at a geographical level, it presents itself today as an element that hinders face-to-face communication and causes a change in relationships. Recent studies identify among the problematic behaviors resulting from the easiness of use and transport of the smartphone, the phantom vibration syndrome, the fear of remaining without a smartphone-Nomophobia, FOMO, fear of not being continuously informed and of losing what happens online, Phubbing, specific behavior that consists in neglecting the person with whom you are engaged in any social situation, to compulsively watch, control and touch the smartphone. According to this situation, it is important to intervene and sensitize the population to obtain a reduction in the frequency of use of the smartphone, leaving the man free to choose, compared to the man that he would like to be, how much time to actually dedicate in the use of the smartphone and as for the reality that surrounds him.

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When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How Social Media Alters Human Relationships

Cited by 12 publications

References 2 publications

The Hype of Coronavirus Pandemic in Southeast Nigeria: Some Thoughts

The Hype of Coronavirus Pandemic in Southeast Nigeria: Some Thoughts

The Use of the Smartphone, A Nice Paradox: Functional and Dysfunctional at the Same Time

How Much are Aware of the Effects of Smartphone use in Daily Activities?

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